The new fad is social networking. What started out as a simple way for friends and family to stay in touch has become the way people communicate. Sites like MySpace, facebook, and twitter, have become household names and those who aren’t using them are behind the times. (Does anyone remember email?) Facebook once started out as a way for college mates to network. Now it is the way the world keeps up with each other. Not only that, it has become one of the most valuable marketing tools for businesses and individuals. Everything from music to movies to online casinos host a facebook page. (I even saw a political ad that didn’t list a website, but, instead, a facebook page.) Causes are advocated on facebook. Save the birds, return Pluto to planet status, and put Betty White on Saturday Night Live have all made their way to facebook.
The other mega popular way of social networking is Twitter. Even though it has been around a couple of years there are still some who don’t quite get what Twitter means. Twitter is basically a way for an individual to constantly and instantaneously update their friends and followers on what they are doing. “Bob, is at the New York Giants football game,” “Fred is singing barbershop and drinking beer” “Lucy is playing blackjack at the Planet Hollywood Casino.”
That last one has some truth to it (although the names mentioned above are fictitious and any resemblance to any individual living or dead is coincidence). Basketball ledgend Michael Jordan’s son Marcus put out a tweet boasting how much he had spent and partied at a Las Vegas Casino. The Twitter posting now has casino empire MGM Resorts International under investigation. The younger Jordan is only 19 years of age. “I didn’t mean it the way it came across,” said the minor. He has also admitted that he has had conversations with both of his parents about the incident.
